Qiu Mingli sat opposite Li Jin, and when he heard what Li Jin said, he wanted to change the law to the Son of Heaven, and after thinking about it for a while, he immediately shook his head and said:

"Your Highness, the old man advises you to postpone the matter of changing the law!"

"Why?" asked Li Jin.

Tyumen sighed:

"The current situation is changeable, the emperor is old, and he has long lost his ambition of the past, even if His Royal Highness and the emperor re-propose the strategy of changing the law, cough! I'm afraid it won't help!"

Li Zhen stood up, paced back and forth in the Moyun Pavilion for a few steps, walked to the window, looked at the calm water surface of Tsuen Hu, and said without worry:

"However, now, our treasury is empty, the drought has just passed, and the enemy country is eyeing each other, if we do not change the policy of taxation, the national situation may become more and more difficult, and in the long run, it will not be a good policy!"

Qiu Mingli also got up, walked to the window, pointed to the calm water of the Tsuen Lake under the two of them, and said meaningfully:

However, the current situation is like the water of this Quanhu Lake, although there are no waves on the surface, but there is an undercurrent surging inside. At this time, His Highness's sudden remarks about changing the law will inevitably stir up the lake, and if the undercurrent at the bottom of the lake is touched, the entire lake will not be at peace from now on! I am afraid that in the end, His Highness will still backfire!"

Li Zhen naturally also heard the meaning of Qiu Mingli's words, when today's prince is unwilling to elect the crown prince, and the position of the prince has been vacant, all the princes will inevitably have to secretly covet the big position. For the sake of the future future, the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China will often choose a prince's team, so that a party struggle between the various factions in the DPRK and China is formed. On the contrary, the way he conceived to change the law is actually to change the national law established by the Taizong Dynasty, and if someone with a heart seizes the handle and attacks him for the crime of "arguing about the law of his ancestors in vain and threatening to harm the society", his father will also be embarrassed.

In a word, even if he is already above 10,000 people under one person, and now he is the respect of Prince Jiuzhu, but the power is not in his own hands, and changing the law is empty talk!

Li Zhen said with emotion: "What the gentleman said is extremely true! But at present, the state situation is so difficult that the annual tax and silver cannot be collected! Looking at the whole world, the rich get richer, but the poor are even poorer. However, the local governments at all levels only know how to exploit the poor, and the rich gentry who are really rich often do not have to pay taxes!

Li Zhen leaned in front of the window and looked down at the water of Tsuen Hu, saying that he was depressed, and couldn't help but tap the railing next to him from time to time, and the meaning in his heart seemed to be extremely uneven......

At this time, Li Zhen saw a person striding in from outside the garden from a distance, and when the person walked to the shore of Tsuen Hu, he shouted towards the Moyun Pavilion:

"Fourth brother, is the fourth brother here?"

"Third brother!"

Li Zhen hurriedly responded, and immediately went downstairs with Qiuming Tower.

The person who came was Li Yi, the king of Zhao, who came to the palace of King Wei in the middle of the night, obviously had an urgent matter to discuss with Li Jin, so after Qiu Mingli saluted the two princes, he immediately said goodbye and went out of the back garden.

Li Zhen and Li Yi went upstairs again, and the two brothers took their seats at the stone table, and Li Yi immediately said:

"Fourth brother, something happened in Chang'an City again! Just now, Cheng Wanli secretly reported to me that the forbidden army patrolling the city found the bodies of four more men in the area of Anlefang in the south of the city!"

"Huh?" Li Jin's face immediately changed, and he couldn't help but be surprised:

"Third brother, could it be that this cat demon has come out to harm people again?"

"These four corpses are all scorched black, their limbs are shrunk, and their faces are already hideous and difficult to distinguish. Now, it's hard to decide whether that harmful monster is a cat demon or not!" Li Yi couldn't help but shake his head, a little helpless.

Li Zhen said anxiously:

"Could it be that the monsters that are causing trouble in our Daqian capital, in addition to the cat demon who killed the sixth brother, are there other demons?"

Li Yi still shook his head and said noncommittally:

"This ...... It's hard to say!"

Li Zhen saw that his third brother was in a hurry to see him in the middle of the night, but what he said was the case of "monsters haunting the capital", he thought about it a little in his heart, and guessed Li Yi's intention, and immediately asked:

"Third brother, you are in a hurry, do you want to discuss with me to change the current curfew law and re-issue a late-night grounding order for the men in Chang'an City?"

"That's exactly what I meant!" Li Yi nodded.

Li Zhen asked again: "Third brother, fourth brother wants to ask, where are the bodies of these four men now? Who else knows about this?" 51

Li Yi then replied: "Wanli has ordered someone to store the four corpses secretly, and few people know about this matter except for you and me. ”

Li Zhen thought for a while, and then said: "In this case, according to the fourth brother's opinion, the curfew law in Chang'an City should not be changed again!"

Li Yi asked: "Fourth brother is worried, the curfew has just been relaxed, if we tighten it again, all men in the city will be grounded at night, it will inevitably cause panic among the people of Chang'an?"

Li Zhen nodded and said:

"The common people have become accustomed to a peaceful life, if we suddenly break this calm, the people will panic, if this panic spreads everywhere, can not be contained, it is inevitable that there will be ignorant people will do some disobedient and lawless things, at that time, the peace situation in Chang'an City that has been hard to get will be in vain!"

Li Yi also nodded, and said: "What the fourth brother said is not unreasonable, the peace of Chang'an City is not easy to come by, the people have been frightened by the cat demon case before, and now they have finally calmed down, if there is another wind and grass, it is bound to be even more panicked, if it causes chaos in the city, it will really outweigh the losses!"

"However......" Li Yiwu said with some worries: "According to the current curfew policy, the people can walk around outside until the end of the day, but the monsters are still harming people everywhere, and it is not a good strategy to continue like this in the long run!"

Li Zhen stood up and walked around the stone table a few more times, he thought for a long time, and still said:

"Third brother, my father ordered you to take charge of the cat demon case, you have so many elite soldiers, you have been catching the demon for so long, why can't you catch the cat demon so far?"

Li Yi couldn't help but look ashamed, and said ashamedly:

"It's because I'm incompetent, I've been looking for two months, and I still can't find the cat demon!"

"Third brother, don't think about it, I don't mean to blame you. According to the fourth brother's humble opinion, this person who caught the cat demon is not the third brother alone after all, the third brother should turn this matter into a strict order, and you must order your subordinates to complete it within the time limit!"

Li Yi stood up, walked to the attic window, looked up at the dark night sky, but sighed:

"Ahem...... The fourth brother didn't know, this demon hunting was different from catching people! If an ordinary human committed a crime, he only needed to order the soldiers to strictly investigate, and the big deal was to block the whole city and investigate one by one, as long as it was a person, he could always be caught! But after all, demons are different from mortals, their whereabouts are erratic, their daily lives are uncertain, ordinary soldiers are not opponents of demons at all, and there are very few people who really have the ability to catch demons. In this way, it is very difficult to raise a limited number of manpower to search for the evil demon who committed the crime within a radius of several hundred miles!"

Li Zhen waved his hand, obviously not agreeing with what his brother saw, he picked up the teacup, drank several sips of warm tea, and said:

In the foolish brother's heart, whether it is to catch demons or people, the truth is the same, it is all in the ears of people! In Chang'an City today, the subordinates who helped the third brother solve the case include Tsing Yiwei, Jingzhao Mansion, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and even the forbidden army has joined in. The most important yamen of my Daqian are all dispatched by the third brother. It can be seen from this that the father and emperor have finally put deep intentions for the safety of the people in the capital! But the third brother has been loose and sloppy with your subordinates, blindly letting them go, and has not put the slightest pressure! If the third brother has always been like this, not only to catch demons, but also to catch people, I am afraid that those subordinates of the third brother may not do their best!"

Li Zhen took another sip of tea, and then said:

"Third brother, imagine that the cat demon case has been two months ago, and in the past two months, relying on strict curfews and night grounding, the young and strong men in Chang'an City have finally been killed too much. It's just that if the monster is out for one day, the life of a man in Chang'an will be in danger for one more day! If the monster is not removed, what good will it do to have a strict curfew?"

Li Yi nodded again and again when he heard this:

Although my father gave me so many yamen, however, Jingzhao Mansion couldn't even manage a few beggars, and Dali Temple explored outside Chang'an City for two months, but I didn't know that the cat demon was hiding in the cave of Jinding Mountain, and the criminal department was even more useless...... It seems that tomorrow morning, I should call those people together and hold another 'case investigation and trial meeting'! Why don't I also learn from my father's method and set a time limit for each of them to solve the case!"

Li Zhen smiled and waved his hand:

"Third brother, your so-called 'case investigation and trial conference,' foolish brother thinks that if you don't open it, what is the use of holding more meetings? Moreover, you can't call all the chief officials of the yamen to one place, you must know that if there are too many yamen, it is easy to pass the buck to each other......

Li Zhen thought about it for a while, and then said:

"It's better to let the fourth brother follow you to Tsing Yi Wei tomorrow!"

"What does the fourth brother mean by putting all this case on Tsing Yiwei's head?"

Li Zhen nodded and replied:

"Tsing Yi Wei is one of the most elite yamen in my country. The people inside, even if they are a guard, are all carefully selected, from more than 100 households, all of them are masters. If this 'cat demon case' is not handed over to them, who else can it be handed over?"

Li Yi patted the railing and replied:

"Okay! Just listen to the fourth brother! That Shen Huan of Tsing Yi Wei, his martial arts are not only deeply hidden, but he is also scheming, and his father is convinced of this person! I will force this case on Shen Huan's head tomorrow, and order him to catch the cat demon within ten days! This time, I want to see how much ability this Shen Huan hides in private?!"

"In addition to Shen Huan, there is also Nangong silent!" Li Zhen said.